Viktoria Tomova will play in the final of the UTA 125 clay tennis tournament in the Spanish city of Valencia, which has a prize fund of 100 thousand euros. The leader in the scheme Tomova prevailed in the semi-finals over Irina Shimanovich (Belarus) after a reversal with 2:6, 6:3, 6:4, BTA reports. The match lasted two hours and 26 minutes.
Tomova, the 69th in the world ranking, who is certain to participate in the Olympic Games in Paris, lost the first set, but in the second she led 3:1 and 4:2, equalizing after the successful 6:3.
In the third part, the Bulgarian made a good start and took a 2:0 lead, but conceded an equalizer for 2:2. A series of three games followed for her and a lead of 5:2, Šimanović reduced it to 4:5, but then Viktoria Tomova took advantage of her third match point and won the match with the final 6:4.
The Bulgarian tennis player will fight for the title against the winner of the match between the second-seeded Jessica Busas Maneiro from Spain and the American Ann Lee.
With her excellent performance at the tournament, Tomova earned 81 points for the world ranking and will record a new women's ranking.